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Ice Cream Parlor Is Sweet Addition to Hillman City
Walking through the intersection of S Orcas St. and Rainier Ave. S. on a drizzly, fall evening, the only sights of people to be found, besides vehicle traffic, are a woman with a carry-out plastic bag...
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Crimes rates in Federal Way show uptick this year
On the corner of 356th Street and 18th Avenue Southwest is a park bench, tucked between flourishing bushes near a stop sign with its base covered in flowers, candles and balloons swaying back and...
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Beacon Hill Dance Studio Fosters Safe Space for Diversity
Behind an inconspicuous white door on the top floor of El Centro de la Raza in Beacon Hill resides Culture Shakti. Inside the studio, the traditional wooden floors and mirrors of a dance studio are...
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Local Nonprofit Shifts Gears to Adapt to Columbia City’s Evolution
For 14 years, Homer O’Neil has had a front row seat as Columbia City has evolved side-by-side with a local nonprofit stalwart. Bike Works, the community-based bicycle enthusiast group founded in 1996,...
View ArticleAt the mic: Teens slam injustice with poetry
Every first Sunday of the month, a small café in Beacon Hill opens its doors after hours to a group of teenage spoken word poets ready to tackle social justice issues. These poets share very personal...
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Fake it ‘til you make it
A backlight illuminates fluorescent markers on a silicone face used to practice plastic surgery. Timothy Kenney Medical simulation lab engineers next-generation training manikin Surrounded by silicone...
View ArticleDespite more than a decade of bicycle activism, Ballard Bridge remains a danger
Riding home at night a few years ago, Haley Keller had to cross the Ballard Bridge with its notoriously skinny three-foot-wide sidewalks. She usually carries only one bag on the left side of her bike...
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Seattle’s homeless soccer team plays on local and international pitches
On Thursday nights, the University Presbyterian Church’s multi-purpose room turns into an indoor soccer arena. The carpeted floors are taped with black lines marking a basketball court. Only the small...
View ArticleSeattle’s Coffee Culture Lacking Ethnic Diversity
Seattle has a rich history of coffee. Our city serves as a flagship location for numerous specialty coffee roasters and this past April attracted coffee aficionados from all over the world to the...
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Healthy, homemade Indian food made easy
Mitra Raman grew up drinking buttermilk, or chaas, all the time as a child, which she described as being similar to liquefied yogurt. “First thing I ate was buttermilk rice,” Raman said. She now...
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County Grant Helps Skyway’s Somali Community Expand Afterschool Program
A crowd of young Somali girls has just finished an hour of basketball. Now they head to the classroom upstairs for tutoring, and of course an occasional dance to Drake’s “God’s Plan.” Vincent Perraelt,...
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Affordable housing over I-5? It’s not as crazy as you might think
When Interstate 5 was built more than 50 years ago, many didn’t consider the problems associated with a massive highway splitting up the University District from Wallingford, Capitol Hill from...
View ArticleThe king of cup stacking: Federal Way man is one of the fastest around
UW News Lab Ezekiel McDowell has been obsessed with speed for as long as he can remember. His favorite superhero growing up was The Flash and he says he can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 30 seconds....
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Tutor with Tails program creates a fun space for early readers
A lot of people say Brody has “the face.” Despite his nicely groomed golden hair, he is the type who would catch one’s heart by just being a good listener. Braedon Rose said he loves the dog reading...
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With a decade of nostalgic style on Capitol Hill, Throwbacks Northwest adapts...
Walk east on Pike, just past 12th Ave and you might miss it. Tucked away in a small storefront, you can tell you’ve found Throwbacks Northwest from the black door covered in stickers and all the...
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Local theater spaces at risk
After four years of bringing musicals to life in Shoreline, the Aurora Theatre Company disbanded last July. Now, Seattle Musical Theatre is at risk of losing its performance space at Magnuson Park as...
View ArticleNon-Profit Organization, Somos Mujeres Latinas, announced at Annual Latina...
With more than 300 attendants crowded into a single room, the Annual Latina Symposium hosted at North Seattle College is bigger than ever. But recently, it sprouted its own official offshoot, Somos...
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Months after radiation leak, researchers getting back to work but First Hill...
The loading dock looks almost normal, sitting in the shade behind the Harborview Research and Training Building. But there are no lab technicians running back from their lunch break, no one delivering...
View Article16 Proposed Bills Restrict Transgender Youth from Fully Participating in...
Jack Verzuh, a national-level ultimate frisbee player from Seattle, was drawn to sports from a young age — in athletics, they were judged on their skills rather than their gender identity. But in more...
View ArticlePeople who don’t let snow stop them from biking offer some advice
Heather Eliason wore spikes on her shoes to help her slow down and gain traction on the ice when she biked on snowy and icy Seattle streets in years past. Eliason used her bike as transportation around...
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